As reports swirl that feared Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has been killed in a plane crash near Moscow, it has emerged the mercenary boss was declared dead in another aviation disaster in 2019 – only to reappear three days later.
Prigozhin has been listed as one of the 10 passengers onboard a doomed plane that crashed into a ball of flames, killing all on board, by Russian authorities – two months to the day after he led a short-lived munity against Moscow.
But there has still been no confirmation that Prigozhin, who has been a thorn in Vladimir Putin‘s side since the Ukraine war began, has died in the plane crash.
And this is not the first time that Prigozhin has been declared dead in a plane crash only to reappear alive and well three days later – prompting some to question whether the Wagner warlord could ‘rise from the dead’ for a second time.
In October 2019, an An-27 military aircraft crashed with eight people on board in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was reported…